That works, or more specifically, it works if I do: sudo startx ~/.xinitrc.Xnest -- /usr/bin/Xnest :1 -name "xmonad" +kb -ac -geometry 1152x768 Thanks for all the help, guys! Mike Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
On Aug 3, 2007, at 17:09 , Michael Vanier wrote:
Huh, I think I was asking the wrong question then. I don't really want to do all the things that are done in my .xinitrc file. I noticed, though, that (for instance) my .Xresources are ignored inside the xnested xmonad, so I have to do
Correct thing to do is have a ~/.xinitrc.Xnest and do:
startx ~/.xinitrc.Xnest -- Xnest :1
(the full pathname to .xinitrc is important, otherwise it runs your regular .xinitrc and passes the stuff before the -- as arguments. on the other hand, you could use that to customize your .xinitrc...)
Hm, except that XFree86 broke startx at one point such that it always passed them as arguments. I *think* xorg fixed that, but you should test to make sure startx does the right thing in that case. Or possibly use xinit directly instead of startx. (startx is just a wrapper around xinit that invokes a standard system-wide xinitrc and/or xserverrc as needed. Since you're specifying both the xinitrc and an X server, you can safely use xinit directly.)
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